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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #902 - Live Underground from The Comedy Store' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-01-20. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #902 - Live Underground from The Comedy Store

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
And we are now live.
Jeff Ross, this is the first time we have ever done a live podcast from the
Comedy Store,
and it's with you, buddy.
I feel like we're in Hitler's bunker.
Do you?
I think Hitler's bunker is probably not as well lit.
Definitely didn't have the sound dampening.
That's how you know it's a real podcast studio.
They have this shit.
The sound dampening stuff.
The sound dampening stuff.
I think this is cool, though.
It's in the color of the Comedy Store.
It's got the old sign.
Old Comedy Store sign in the background, and we figured, fuck it.
We're here all the time.
Usually, I'm just here hanging around after.
Why not do a podcast?
Have some fun.
I love it.
Hi, everybody.
What's up?
Hey, everybody.
Happy Thursday.
Happy Thursday.
So tell me about your fucking show.
Your roast battle is on Comedy Central.
It's crazy, man.
Yeah, it's amazing.
Started out in the belly room.
You know, you came.
Fucking great.
It's one of the reasons why I came back to the store.
When I came to see that show in the belly room, I was like, wow.
It was the day before Ari filmed his special, and I hadn't been to the store in
seven years.
I remember.
I came here.
I saw you at the improv that night.
Yeah.
I'd seen you a couple.
I'd been sitting at the improv around, and I kept talking about it.
That's where I was doing sets.
And I kind of made it a personal mission to bring you back to the Comedy Store.
Aw, sweetie.
And roast battle was the bait.
Well, roast battle definitely helped, too, also because it was so electric.
I was like, man, there's something going on in this place.
Dude, I love doing the show so much, and the comics love doing it.
It's the only competition show where comics who aren't even on the show come to
watch other comics.
Yeah.
It's insane.
It's one of the rare shows where comics come to watch other comics.
We're shooting in the old House of Blues across the street.
They're knocking it down in a couple weeks and building condos forever.
Very historic building.
That's kind of crazy.
So our producer, Joel Gallen, had the idea to go in there, pull the stage out,
clean it up.
There was all kinds of stuff living in there, and we built our roast battle
arena inside the old House of Blues for four nights.
Wow.
I can't believe this is happening.
That's crazy.
It's like, you know, the early days of wrestling or fighting or something.
I can't believe they're turning into condos.
That stuff's hard to realize that that's what we're going to have across the
street, but maybe it'll be good in some way.
Well, I bet a lot of comics are just going to get a fucking apartment there if
you can afford it.
That'd be amazing.
Stumble out of bed, walk across the street.
Oh, I didn't even think about that.
Yeah.
Why not live there?
Huh.
I mean, come on, man.
It'd be the greatest.
And if you have a reluctant girl, you know, you're trying to meet a young lady.
And you're like, come on back to my place.
Well, I mean, I'm getting kind of tired.
Listen, baby, it's just across the street.
Yeah, you're there.
We're already there.
Come on over.
Maybe it'll be good.
Okay, Jeff.
I mean, you are kind of funny.
And I just want you to know I'm not that kind of girl.
Well, we'll play ping pong in my rec room.
Ping pong is a good one to play.
Everyone thinks they know how to play foosball.
Right?
I don't know.
Do they?
Yeah.
A lot of drunk people think they know how to play that one.
Oh, foosball.
Yeah.
You know that thing.
Nobody knows how to play ping pong.
Like a few people do, but they're assholes.
I have two Chinese cousins, and they're very good at ping pong.
China and ping pong go together for some reason.
Is that video, has anyone seen that video of Bruce Lee hitting the nunchucks?
Is that real?
No, it's not real.
Damn.
Oh, Joe Rogan, you ruined it.
Why did you think it was real?
It looks so fucking fake.
How do I know?
I could eat glass.
Can you imagine if he was like a world champion ping pong player plus this
martial arts master?
I didn't even take of the fact that his ping pong was that good.
It was more like he was hitting the ball without.
Wasn't he doing it with nunchucks?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't think.
I'm pretty sure.
I can't.
I don't even know why I answered that.
I should have told you yes.
It was true.
Totally real, bro.
Bruce Lee was a master, bro.
Damn.
I just never wanted to know what I shouldn't have asked.
I was here one night where Eddie Griffin was telling a Bruce Lee story, and
Eddie Griffin
was just drunk as fuck, and he was making up some Bruce Lee story.
He's like, there was 39 people in the room when he died.
All of them attacked Bruce Lee.
18 of them died before they got him.
Wow.
I was like, what?
No, no, no, no, no.
He had like an allergic reaction to a drug or something.
He had like a blood clot or something.
Hmm.
I don't know.
Strange.
Some people think the Chinese triad had him whacked.
Oh, really?
Yeah, because you know his son Brandon died on the set of a movie where they
had a fake
gun, like a gun with a blank.
Yeah.
And they shot at him, and there was something inside the gun, and it wound up
killing him.
Yeah.
What a way to go.
Was it a stuntman who shot him or another actor?
I think it was another actor.
And they, from then on, now they made a new rule after that, I think.
This might be bullshit.
But I think the new rule was what I had heard, was that you can't point a gun
at someone when
you shoot him.
Like, instead of shooting you in the blank, if you and I were in a movie, and I
was going
to shoot you in the blank, I'd have to do that.
But it looks like from over there that I'm shooting at you, but I'm really
shooting to
the left of you.
Oh, fascinating.
Wow.
Yeah.
I guess I never realized that.
Sightline is weird.
Yeah, you remember his brother, The Crow?
Or his son, rather?
Yeah.
Isn't that movie, The Crow?
It was cool, and they had to finish it without him or something?
Yeah, they had to hire some guy to pretend to be him, I think.
It's 2017.
We're almost done with January, and not one major celebrity has.
Died in any way yet.
Crazy.
Amazing how many dropped off right before the end, though.
Carrie Fisher was a bummer.
That was crazy.
Who else died?
Prince, David Bowie.
Prince, George Michael, David Bowie.
Prince is a bad one, man.
He died from fucking pain pills.
Hey, Magoda.
We lost fish?
A year ago.
Really?
Beginning of last year.
Oh, shit.
Tough one.
I didn't know about that one.
He was 175 years old.
He was at least that old.
What was that other, Barney, um...
His SAG number was three.
Barney Miller, right?
Wasn't that a detective show?
He played Fish on Barney Miller.
And then he had Fish, his own show.
Well, he was in the Godfather movies.
That's true.
He had a spinoff, though, right?
Fish.
Yeah, that was his...
I love that show.
It was only on one season, but everyone remembers it.
How is that possible?
If there's a show on now for one season, you don't even know it's all.
You never heard of it.
You never remember now.
Fish lasted one season, and everyone remembers it.
Do you think this now that, you know, you've been on TV a bunch of times, and
you've had
your own show, and now you've got Rose Battle on.
Do you think there's so many shows on now with so many networks and so many
channels, and
then there's streaming shit like Netflix and Hulu and, you know, CISO and a
million...
It's almost like there's too much content.
I think it's just, for some reason, more narrowed, you know?
You get your exact audience.
That's true.
Strange, you know?
Like Doug Benson has something for pop smokers, and someone else has something
for home improvement,
and then there's a channel just for cooking shows, and it's kind of like that,
I guess.
Otherwise, it's hard to understand.
Well, it's hard to get people to know about your show just from TV.
Right.
You need, like, some sort of a web presence and some sort of a social media
presence and
something else.
It's like regular shows, like, if you just put it on after a successful show,
nobody knows
what the fuck it is.
They just change the channel to something they do know.
Right.
Interesting.
There's almost too many things going on now, Jeff.
That's what's hard about launching any TV show, and we're doing our show as a
tournament,
like, as an event, so by the time you even know it's on, it's over.
Yeah.
But it's so good.
It's so good it can't lose.
That's a show when they said that they were going to turn that into a
television show,
I'm like, that can't miss.
It can't miss.
And, you know, especially if you could figure out a way to do them all in the
belly room.
I really feel like the belly room is something special.
It really is the magic.
There's something.
It's so intimate.
It's so, and when you see someone get fucking crushed in the belly room, like,
I've heard
some goddamn Titanic lines up there.
What did Kim Kong did say about this girl?
She said, oh, she said, she's not Union, but her tits are sag.
It really is a joke writer's showcase.
It is.
Well, that's the thing.
We're doing it the last, it's next weekend.
I don't know when you were posting.
We're live.
So it's.
Yeah, we're live now.
We're live now.
Hi, I forgot.
Oh, hi, everybody.
So when is it?
It's 26, 27, 28, and 29 January.
Four nights in a row.
And it, has it already?
It's a bracketed tournament.
We'll start taping tomorrow, and then the finale is live on the 29th.
Ah, that's awesome.
Live on TV?
It's fun right now, because right around, we're in the comedy store right now.
All the New York comics are staying across the street, so they're all coming
over to check
out the comedy store, and now we're shooting across the street in the old House
of Blues.
So, like, this whole little neighborhood is going to be Roast Battle
neighborhood for a week
or so.
You hear the piano?
It's kind of great.
We're downstairs below the original room, so you can hear the piano.
This is underground comedy.
This is underground.
That's what we're going to call it.
Underground at the comedy store, right?
I love that.
Perfect, because we're underground.
That's what we'll call it.
Got it.
Love that.
Live underground from the comedy store.
Fuck yeah, because you can hear.
You can hear comics killing up there.
You can hear the piano music.
It's fucking awesome.
It's got a real feel to it, bro.
Dude, you shaved your eyebrows.
I ran into you in New York five months ago, and you had shaved your eyebrows.
How do I look now?
They're kind of not back yet.
I'm a strange-looking guy, Rogan.
I mean...
How long does it take for eyebrows to grow back?
Could be a lifetime.
That's fucking nuts.
That's so weird.
Like, I thought eyebrows would be like a beard.
I don't really have hair on my body.
You don't?
No.
You like your body hair?
Yeah, like my sister's never shaved her legs.
Look, Greg Fitzsimmons, everybody.
Come on in, Greg.
Come in?
Fuck yeah.
Get in here, buddy.
We saved you a spot.
Isn't this cool?
Hi, Greg.
Dude, you are for here.
Got his letterman jacket on.
This one's fine?
Okay.
Beautiful.
Welcome to Hitler's bunker.
I know.
Can't we fuck Ava?
No.
How was your set?
How was your set?
You know, it was one of those crowds where if you did new shit that you were
excited about,
they were with you, and as soon as you did a bit that had any dust on it, they
just fucking
flatlined.
So do you think that was you, or they felt it in you?
Oh, it was definitely me.
It was me because I felt like when you have new stuff, you get so excited about
doing it
that you come alive and you're not reciting it.
You're really saying it.
And then when you transition into shit that you've been doing for too long, you
lose that
freshness and they sense there's a difference between the material.
There's a moment when you're doing an old bit where you have so much shame and
you try
to reignite it and power it up and it doesn't work and you're like, oh, why am
I still doing
this fucking shitty bit?
Right.